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  Super star vocalist Miki Howard‘s story is coming to TV One on Sunday, June 12 at 7 p.m. ET. This is the network’s first-ever biopic inspired by its signature series Unsung.   She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the biopic and her advice for young women hoping to make it in show business. […]

TV One has reserved 7 p.m. Sunday, June 12 for the premiere of “Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story,” the network’s first scripted film based on an episode of “Unsung.” The film follows the complicated history of Howard’s romantic relationship with R&B singer Gerald Levert, the tumultuous relationship with her mother, and her […]

  Most known for her roles in Mad Men and Chiraq, Teyonah Parris, stars in the hit show Survivor’s Remorse. She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about season three, art imitating life and starring as Miki Howard in the upcoming TV One biopic. On rumors that Mike Epps was killed off: “You’ll have to […]

Lifetime and VH1 aren't the only networks getting in on music biopics. TV One is currently in production on a film about the life of R&B singer, Miki Howard.

Veteran filmmaker Spike Lee‘s latest joint, Chiraq pays an unfortunate homage to the gang and gun violence in the city of Chicago, when the girlfriend (Teyonah Parris) of a Chicago gang leader (Nick Cannon) persuades other frustrated women to withhold sex until their men agree to end the senseless cycle of violence. “That premise comes from […]

Amazon has released the first trailer for Spike Lee’s upcoming film Chiraq, and Twitter is already giving it the side-eye. Based on the Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Lee’s film appears to be a modern-day version of the play, with Chicago’s infamous gang violence as the war. The trailer starts with the phrase “This is an […]

The 67th Annual Emmy Awards were all the rage on Sunday evening as Hollywood’s A-list packed into the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles to…